%0 Journal Article %T Language planning for "Munduruk¨² do Amazonas" %A Pican£¿o %A Gessiane %J Revista Brasileira de Lingu¨ªstica Aplicada %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1984-63982012000200009 %X munduruk¨², a tupian language of brazil, exhibits two opposite scenarios. on one extreme, there is munduruk¨² do par¨¢, the language of daily communication in the munduruk¨² indigenous land, with fluent speakers found across all generations and still acquired by children as a mother tongue. on the other extreme, there is munduruk¨² do amazonas, formerly spoken in the kwat¨¢-laranjal indigenous land, but whose inhabitants have shifted to portuguese. a group of munduruk¨² students from amazonas decided to initiate a process of language revitalisation as a way to strengthen the community's ethnic and cultural identity. this paper reports the initial stages of language planning, and includes future actions to promote language use in the homes and communities, assessement of language proficiency, and definition of educational programs to teach munduruk¨² in local schools. %K munduruk¨² do amazonas %K language revitalisation %K language planning %K language policy %K indigenous education %K language teaching %K orthography. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1984-63982012000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en